Aug 15, 2011

Tomato harvest off to another slow start

The smell of processing tomatoes hasn’t reached Woodlanders’ noses yet as the harvesting season is at least two weeks delayed from previous years.

“Locals, regardless if they’re involved in agriculture, can see that there’s very few loaded tomato trucks rolling around our county roads,” said Gene Miyao, farm adviser for the UC Cooperative Extension with a specialty in processing tomatoes. Daily Democrat

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